Back to Eden: Landscaping with Native Plants

Now is the time to save our natural plant heritage, insists Frank Porter, before it is too late. Taking up plants as a hobby after a career as a Native American scholar, Porter soon found he had a new vocation; his Porterbrook Native Plants nursery is devoted to the preservation of interesting and endangered regional species. In Back to Eden he rediscovers the plants that once covered the landscape east of the Mississippi, and reveals how to propagate and grow these botanical treasures. Porter describes how to establish a native plant garden, uncover silent garden invaders, make a rain garden, and grow a garden without fertilizer, while explaining the importance of using native grasses and plants.